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I’m surprised to hear there aren’t many good books on the war given how significant it was in shaping Europe. That was impressed upon me in high school European history.
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Which then cycles back to ML methods. Diffusion models are non-equilibrium stat mech. Sure building a better HMC algorithm might not be a good use of time, but the spirit of MCMC is alive
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To me, the two have served a similar but non-overlapping function. There’s stuff I’ve find a lot easier to bring up in therapy, or bring up in therapy and then talk to friends about when I feel more comfortable.
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Film is a very fun hobby that I recently began enjoying. I’ve never been into digital photography — the instant feedback kind of removed the magic for me. Film forces you to finish the roll (or you’re throwing money away) and that helps kee
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For me, playing guitar. When I was grinding through problems sets in undergrad in my room, I’d have my guitar in my hand running scales or whatever to keep my hands busy. Now I do something similar while watching TV. The best teacher I had
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I wonder if it has to do with the size of your hands? I have big hands and always preferred the Xbox controllers to DuelShocks because they felt better suited to my hand size.
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Philadelphia is a large port city and is still one of the biggest cities in the US. NJ sits between two major metropolitan areas that are a two hour drive from one another. As a result, Philly and NJ had a lot more factory industry back the
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Also mistakes driving a car are more costly. If you miss a turn on a bike, you can stop, walk your bike back, and take it. In a car, if the street is busy, you can’t do that, and who knows where you end up if you take the next exit etc.
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A Star is Born has been remade four times or so
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My hazy recollection was that this didn’t seem all too crazy back then since chemistry and scientific standards were either non-existent or in their infancy
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Wait until he learns about “Killing fields” which are vector fields whose flow preserves distance and named after Wilhelm Killing
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I mainly use them when I get an iced coffee. Makes it easier to drink with the ice and minimizes spillage risk (those sippy cup lids that stores use now always leak for me). If I’m at a restaurant or home I rarely use one. Some cocktails at
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This has generally been my experience with a few more abstract areas of math. Maybe it’s just me and my domain of interest, but I can never seem to find an application that justifies the effort required to learn it. I’m glad some people are
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It’s not physically realizable but the spring-loaded inverted pendulum is arguably the “simplest” walking model. It’s just a mass on a spring.
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You’re right but also very few theses are actually read. I know people who have delisted theirs from Google scholar because they had better presentations of the same results published in journals after they defended.
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In addition to what others have said, it fixes a “bug” in Shannon’s continuous version of the entropy. Shannon assumed you could just replace the sum with an integral and call it a day. However, two bad things happen: 1. This definition of
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I love the story of how Bob Weir met Jerry. Legend has it, it was New Years Eve and Weir was with a buddy looking for a bar that would let them in underage when they stumbled across Jerry Garcia. Garcia forgot it was New Years Eve and had b
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There’s certainly fields of math where I’ve seen a twist on the advice. Differential geometry, for example, is a big field with a lot of notation. Different textbooks end up using very different notations and covering non-overlapping sectio
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Plus, at various times, I’ve had to revisit things I learned years ago and ended up understanding it much better because I could connect it to a swath of things I hadn’t learned the first time I saw the material. Math and its applications a
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I don’t know much about continuum mechanics (unless you count stat mech but I wouldn’t), however Goldstein has a few chapters on the topic that might serve as an introduction
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You could say that about a lot of topics. Heck you could say that chemistry is just an emergent phenomenon of physics. The benefit of taking such a class or reading such a textbook is that these things have been studied extensively, we have
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Depending on how you define “learning” (there are different basic frameworks like PAC learning) there’s a number of analyses that show learning and compression are equivalent. Even quite broadly, Bayesian methods can be interpreted as a rat
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The issue is how departments are structured. Generally, every grad student is paid by a grant or fellowship of some sorts. However, how that actually works out varies a lot by discipline. In STEM, well, really hard science, engineering, and
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I’ve gotten packs from that era as free box stuffing gifts when buying merch from smaller companies
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People like collecting whatever. I buy a pack now and then at 711. It’s fun to see if you get players you like or if you pull a card that’s out of date (player is on a different team because the card was printed before the season started, o
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Don’t forget the players get their money too. I’m not sure how it works for the trading cards but, for the MLB at least, players get paid for their likeness used in video games. As an interesting aside, Barry Bonds is the only player since
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My friends did in the 2000s, mostly as impulse buys in the checkout line when mom was paying for groceries. I still get a pack now and then because it’s fun just to see who you get. I’m sure they’re not as popular as when they came with gum
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The time-energy trade off is of particular interest to me. I’m a roboticist, but I’ve been looking at adapting similar thermodynamic results to research problems in my field (Crooks’ work has been quite inspirational). I’m looking forward t
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The coupling between variables is given by the (quadratic) potential of the system. I think there is some confusion because they have two tiers of “particles” going on. The first is the masses coupled in the spring-mass system. In that syst
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At least Manfred has been vocal that he agrees blackouts are a problem. It’s one of the only positives I can think of about him. Part of the issue is due to how baseball has been broadcast historically on local networks. Teams like the Dodg

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